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St. David's ALMOST MIRACULOUS FEATH.K. Fight
Day Programme
In common with other. National Sociebic of Hong Kong.. St. David's Society (Cymdeithas Dowl Sant) have planined u programme for the colouration of their Na- tional Day, St. David's. Day, on Saturday, March 1st.
AL a General Meeting of the members, a Working Committee was appointed consisting of:
President. Mr. E. I. Wynne- Jones: Vice President Mr. J, R. Jones, Hon. Secretary, diss. G. A. G. Faber: 11on. Treasuror,, Mes. 3. Wynne-Jones and the Rev. A. Davies, H.N. and Mrs. Hooper.
Incredible Swim Of Wounded Man
When Inspector Carruthers, of Ping Shan Police
Station, and his witnesses, revealed the delails| of the cold-blooded brutal murder of two men and the attempted murder of a third, they also told the story of an “almost miraculous" feat by Chan Tak-hing, the third victim, who des- pite three bullet wounds swam for four hours with his hands tied behind bis back and after a brief rest, walked for another three or four hours across hills, to make o̟ report to the Police. The alleged
perpetrators that their victims should not were Chan Yutlu alins Ho escape that the boat rowed in Lon-chung. Cheuk Chau, nursuit. When the boat was Cheung Kee-cheong. Liu Mum, Li Yau and Mak Kau. alias Mak Kam-shing, the first nam ed of whom appeared before Mr. Blair-Kerr
at Kowloon yesterday charged with the (b) A Noson Lawen will be murder of Hui Chi and hell in the hall of St. Joseph's Hung, and the attempted mur- Liege (Forces Educational Cen-der of Chan Tak-hing, in Deep tre), Kennedy Road, at 7.30 p.m. Bay on Oct. 12 last.
The entertainment will consist! of a short play by J. O. Francis:
The following programme has been adopted and it is hoped that as many as possible of the mem- bers of the Society and Their friends would attend.
(A) A wreath in memory Welshmen who lost their during the second world will be laid on the Cenotaph 8.30 3.m.
"Birds of a Feather,"
of lives war
at
Welsh
only by a Quartet and a Welsh
Outlining
the case, Crown alleged that some time,
the between 8 and 9 p.m. on Oct. 12 at Lau Fau Shan village, on the British shore of Deep Bay, Hui Chi, Hui Hung and
Tak-hing requested Chan
Choir, together with community singing. A buffet suffer will also
U provided.
It is particularly
that members should inform the Ilon. Treasurer, Mrs. M: Wynne- Jones, d'o G.E.O not later than stating how many tickets they require.
were seized and bound by a gang of seven or eight men. They were put aboard-a-rowing bont und taken out to aen to a part of Deep Bay roughly between the British and Chinese shores, The anchor was dropped, the three victims, shot and
their bodies thrown into the seu,
Swimmer Shot
(c) Arrangements have been made for the 11 'clock, service on Sunday, March 2nd at
St. John's Cathedral to be partly Welsh. The Dean, the very Rev. A. P. Rose. has also kindly con- sented to some of the hymn tunes being favourite Welsh hymn tanen. It la particularly hoped the other two that as many Welsh people as keep afloat and swam away. So possible will attend this Service. determined were the murderers
One sank immediately, managed
but to
NAAFI Socks Case: Hawker Acquitted
PROBATION AGEQ.M. On
EXTENDED
· Power' ta' Magistrates to... grant "probation to adolescent offenders "under 21, whom thep art now reluctantly.com- polled to send to prison,
ja contained in au ordinance to amand the Jitenil, Offenders: Ordinance, 1932, which will have its first., reading Legislative Counett tomorrato. Under the present ordinance the system of probation" ap- plies only to offenders under
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10.
Assault Charge
Against Disease
The Medical authorities aro planning to hold a health cum- paign week beginning March 'Big-ju' an celfort to combat
disease in the Colony,
This will be the first generat health campaign to be held in Long Kong.
How the quartermaster drew)
knife when his mallor's.
the Third Officer ordered him to his post was described to Comdr. It is believed that a maxi- Ryder in the Marine Court mum figure of $50,000 has boon yesterday when Li Hung-chlu,ullotted by the Government for“-- quartermaster of the "Kenil-anti-disease propaganda to be worth" in harbour was charted organised in the Colony during with assault and disobeying a this year. lawful compond.
Customs Pass Olaigant. Ile said on the morneal disease, spitting, urinating
hear one of the swimmera the Accident
he
pursuers opened Are with pig tols and shot him until he annk. the The third- mun, whom murderers assumed to be dead, managed to swim
for four hours, although his arms were tied behind his back and des- pite the fact that he was quifering from three bullet
landed in the vicinity. wounds, at about 2 a.m.
of a beach called Pak Nal, a few miles west of Lau Fau Shan. Here, he received a change of clothing from the amate a solitary wooden they proceeded to trek. the hills to Ping Shan Police Station, arriving at ahoat- B. exhausted.
of
huf and
over
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As a result, a Police party raided Lau Eau. Shan village, and a number of men wore arrested, and witnesses colleet.
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ed.
Four of the alleged derere, Cheuk Chati, Cheung Kee-cheour. Litt Mun and Li Yau, avere arraigned before the District Officer at Taipo on Oct. 29 on the capital charge. On Dec. 9, while the trial of the other four was in procena. Mak Kau was arrested in Lau Fau Shan village, resulting in the re-trial of the first four. On Feb. 11, the five men were committed to stand trial at the
cer.
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Aflocking the health problem Jolus Leslie Wilson, the Third | ander" the headings-of-the- Officer; was In Court as com "monnees of rats, files, vener-
ing of Feb. 24, Li was absent ang defneating in the streets, from his post and "he "Jound | the authorities plan to place him in his quarters. When numerous posters on public This
ig u very genious ordered to go on duty he re-exhibition together with short As a result of your fused charge:
and used abusive films in the local cinemas, and 'carelessness a man has died. language. In the company of' radio talka. You must be punished," the ship's wireless
operator. sald Mr. Latimer at KowloonK. L.Jones, and another of when he fined Chol Him a total cer. Peter Bell, Wilson again of $200 on charges of driving went to L's quarters. He had without due care and caution with him a pair of handcuffs and driving a lorry without the At the sight of the handcuffs permission of the licencer,
got up and drew from its S/1 Browne of the Trafic sheath a sailor's knife. The Department stated that accused party retrented and abut the was driving a Land Transport door, and the gireless operator forry, No. K065, along Customs signalled the Police, who later Paas itond on Feb. 24 when, took Li into custody. as the result of a turn to the
right, the lorry ran over the embankment. One of the three Chinese who were on- the out and vehicle was thrown sustained injuries from which he died.
Imposing a fine of $150, or six weeks hard labour, on the first count, and $50 or two weeks on the second, His Wor- ship also recommended defendant's licence be suspend.
ed for six months.
Information Wanted
that
Symn. Chow Glm, Canadfati Army, would be grateful
for
Ruling that the prosecution had not proved that a Sessions by the District On any information regarding his
larceny had been committed, Mr. Latimer ac- quitted Tsoi Yu, 25, hawker, on the charge of receiving stolen property.
on Feb. 12,
Yu, Sailor.
Sentenced
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New Arrest
MENACES CHARGE On the application of DSI Dowman, Mr. Latimer yester day fixed Wednesday, March 5, for hearing of the charge of demanding money with menáccs 20 against Wan Kwok-ying. married. woman. Accused alleged to have demanded with menaces the sum of $500 from Lo Chi-ching and to Lifting After corroborative evidence on Jan. 21 nt Kowloon. had been given by the wireless operator and Bell, hearing was of the "Kenilworth" to be cull- adjourned to this morning at ed. Li was remanded in Policy
10,30 am for the Chief Officer custody,
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wife, Eva Gum Fong Chow, and his son. Kenneth Chow, from Af about 330 p.m. on Feb.whoin he has had no word since
November 1941. 18, DLS Leung Shun arrested Mrs. Chow was born in-- Chan Yi-shy-the-presunt ac- cuscu, in Des Voeux Road West Toronto on Mar. 25, 1919, and and took him to Ping Shan. was married in Hong Kong on At an identification parade Dec. 20, 1935. Their son wa the following day, he was iden. born on Sept. 6, 1996, at the tified by two of the three boat- Kowloon, Hospital.
Any information should men as having been aboard the boat from start to finish, and, sent to Major G.B. Puddicombe, further, as being one of the K.C., head of the Canadian War Liaison Detachment. armed mhi who went to their Crimes
No. quarters at the Yu Wa Tong Hong Kong, Telephone oyster. firm in Lau Fau Shun 34048. village on the night in question and ordered them, at pistoli paint, to row the boat for them..
His Worship, however, stated marked NAAFI was no evidence that if the Police so desired they that they formed part and parcel could take action against the de- of the six cases missing from the fendant for unlawful possession. shipment,
defending asserted In the meantime, no order res- counsel. pecting the disposal, of the goods would be made for a week, The charge against Tsol defended by Mr. J. M. d'Almada Remedios, was that of fellonously receiving three cases, approxi inately 6000 pairs, men's socks, valued at $13.000, the property Leading Seaman W. J. Weispy of the NAAEL at Tai Kok Tsui of HMS. Adamaot found uilty by Mr. H. G. Sheldon, Prosecuting. DSI Collins stated K. yesterday of assaulting that Chinese detectives Chan a police constable, was senten- Yung and Yan Sung went to 49 ced to one month's hard labour Sal Young Choi Street, ground floor, at about 3 p.m. on the day without the option. in question, and there sav ve men standing near three
chet similar to that exhibited in Court. When questioned. Taol was al- fleged to have stated that
bought the socks from numed No. hawker,
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whom! address he did not know. As the cases were clearly marked NAAFI the detectives took the five men, the lorry driver and the master of the transportation firm at 40 Sai Yeung Chol Street, to the Water Police Station where, after further questioning, accused was
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Subsequent Inquiries revealed that the NAAFI found six caicz of "Holeproof" white cotton socks missing from a shipment of 55 cases, said DSI Collins. The value- of the six cases was $27,000.
sault and said that, on seeing
Welspy denied that the
a friend. A. B. Duncan, being attacked by a crowd of Chinese, he rushed to his assistance.
A. B. Duncan, who was called newitness by Welspy, said that he was struck and kicked on the head by Chinese..
Sub. Lieut. G. L. Hawthorn sald defendant had a very good service record.
Convicting defendant,” ~ Mr. Sheldon said it was a serious offence to strike a police officer and he must punish defendant accordingly.
Money Market
Chinese National Currency Set E. Cannon, of the NAAFI,
was again stationary yesterchy testified that the shipment by
the
at 93 conta for futures and "Fort Providence" was the rat 40 cents for spot (for one received by the NAAFI for. six or seven months, and that i
the
CN$1,000). NAAFI price for these socks was $2.76 per palt. The loss of the
"Gold opened at $260 a`tuel, and closed at the Hame rate,
six cases, he went on to say, was It fluctuated between $254.25 not discovered until they were and $263 in the course of the notified by the Police that three day. casca had been found, when they
Plastres, after a weak open- began to check up. It was not ing at $9.55 possible to check up earlier:
per 100 later 1.8 the consignment had not been com- dropping to $9.40, made a
Wight rally in the pletely unloaded. ..
afternoon Cross-examined by Mr. Reme- and closed at $9.80. dios, witness declared that ho would be surprised if he were to see those socks rotalled at Blang hat Street at 95 sents or 11 per. pair. In reply to D81 Collins, Sgt. Cannon stated that were he to see the socks being offered a such a price he would concluda that the sellers wanted to get rid
U. S. dollara had buyer's at $4.76, Sterling at $14.00 and Australian pounds at $12.55.
SALVATION ARMY APPEAL
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G.B.S. PLAY. TONIGHT Insp-Carruthers said that Opening tonight at 7.30 p.m Bernard the in the Star Theatre is the defendant came from and known to them for from Club: the play will be showing
pre- same village as the boatmen (Shaw's Heartbreak House
sented by the Hong Kong Stage for four nights only. between 10 and 20 years.
Heartbreak loure-a play with witnesses, declared that, after an abundance of wit and humour the second man had been shot-is proclaimed by Shaw himself in the water, he told the pur-as his best work and should prove uuers to stop searching for the with the aid of the skilled players third man as he must be already of the Hong Kong Stage Club, to
be excellent entertainment.
Present at tonight's Hearing will be continued will be HE The Governor and opening thir morning-
Lady Young,
Chan Lochai, one of the
dead.
Punished Gendarmes For Offences
During his term as Officer Commanding the East- ern Kempeitai H.Q. at Happy Valley he had punished three of his subordinates for offences against prisoners in custody, Captain Shibata Shigeo, who spent his second day in the-wit- ness-box at No. 5 War Crimes Court yester- day, stated under cross-examination by the Prosecution Officer, Major R. C. Lai.
Two of the three offenders were court-martialled, Shibata said, one being a Pte. Okunishi, who was punished for beating Murphy and receiv- ed a two-year prison term.
Beatrice
A. Formoenn interpreter types of security and police named Shum Ming-king was work. also court-martialled and sen- He remembered tonced to 2 years' imprison Chan for the reason that he ment for intimidating pri- saw her with a bandage about soners: at the Gendarmerie, hor head. If it had not been The third man, a Set-Major for the bandage, he would not Tsobol, was dealt with dopart have remembered her.. He did of them in a hurry, and that they Following is. the latest list of mentally.
not know what happened to were stolen goods.
donations, to the Annual Appeal Shibata said that ́ prisoners prisoners after they were After the two dolectives had of the Salvation Army Pre were kept for interrogation for transferred to Stanley, that given evidence, viously acknowledged submitted that
ranging from twp| being oûteldo' the scope, of his Mr. Benedion Ms. Hobbin 10.36 Mercantile hours to two months. Only duties.
been committed; secondly, that Hunter $35,00′′ 2000, J.-D. long period,
had falled to adduce evidence to Bank Thala 50.00, Mr. and two or three per cent of the When away from his Head-
Mr. J. Hansen $50.00, and ubstantiate the charge. To prove Mrk. Kastman 160.00 Mr. and more important prisoners were quarters on visits to other sub- the case, the prosecution had to prove. Aratly, that * larceny had Gordda Campbell, 820.00. Sir kept for Interrogation for a stations, a Warrant Officer
Robert Ho. Tung
would take charge of the thegoods forming the subject 380.00, Renolds $20.00, Shewun co-accused,
A. Da Silva He had never heard of his station, Shibata said. One of matter of the charge are part of Tomes $100,00, Mr. Johnstone beat by larceny, and thirdly, that the $20.00, Humphrey and Co $50.00. defendant had guilty knowledge J. D. Humphrey and that the goods ware stolek, or *** 15.5. Pavri and
unable to give uzunliKipstory
account of how he came into
session of them-vi
* Nós ang had bean
hant to
$100.
Sgt-Major Opa, them was Yabuchi and another risoners, Shibata said. Kolke. He did not remember,
not, think; Oba the the third, 'man'a bandzas man who woulda... AV Hoaring of the case, in which
rogations "Skibits and Kolko wre
being cond
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